Does anyone know anything going on for scopolamine? Derivitive of mandrake root? Came up surrounded by a chat and am stumped.?
Answer:
I prescribe scopolamine patches for patients near a history of severe post-operative nausea and vomiting. It helps prevent that from arranged.
We used to use it in anesthesia for unstable trauma patients who couldn't tolerate a "real" anesthetic, so if they survived, they wouldn't remember anything.
Before my time, it be given to laboring women. They had babies next to no memory of the event. (But apparently screamed their bearing through the delivery)
Scopolamine has some annoying side effects, approaching dry mouth, urinary retention and rapid heart rate.
That's pretty much adjectives I know about it. I don't use it except the patch.
http://health.yahoo.com/drug/d00986a1...
try this link
It is unanimously used for motion sickness.
There are other uses, but they aren't medical in character.
Wikipedia is your friend. See the link below.
stir look it up in hary potter... they used mandrakes surrounded by the 2nd book to make an anti-petrification potion =P
a short time ago kidding
used for motion sickness and post functioning nausea...
In hospice, we used to use the scopalomine patch to "dry up" secretions.